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4,115 people call this town in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire home.
Walkability is its weak spot — 28% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 5% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Health is a weak point: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 1% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Homes sell for a median €2,086/m²: 70 m² comes to 5.8 years of the median income per consumption unit in the Communauté de communes de Nozay. Over-65s are only 15% of the population.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi. Saffré has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Saffré with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
Saffré has no overall grade because safety and schools aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Saffré does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saffré as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Église Saint-Saturnin-du-Vieux-Bourg (ancienne), in Nozay, 5.5 mi away.
18% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saffré is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saffré.
5.0% of the labour force were unemployed, lower than both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (7.2%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Jobs located in Saffré: 600, for 2,000 residents in work (0.3 each). The median disposable income is €25,830 a year per consumption unit.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
People 65 and over make up 15% of the town. Young adults of 15 to 24 account for a tenth of the town. Degrees are held by 32% of adults, lower than Loire-Atlantique’s towns (34%) yet higher than compared French towns (30%).
48% women, 52% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Loire-Atlantique 51.0%, France 51.8%.
| Saffré | Loire-Atlantique median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 23% | 19% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 10% | 11% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 28% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 24% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 15% | 19% | 22% |
| No diploma | 14% | 14% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 20% | 19% | 18% |
| Higher education | 32% | 34% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Loire-Atlantique median and France median: the median of compared communes
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Life expectancy at birth in Loire-Atlantique is 86.2 years for women and 80.3 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. Adjusted for age and care homes, Saffré records 99 deaths per 100 expected, above both Loire-Atlantique’s towns (85) and compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 245 deaths in the town from 2016 to 2025; there were 242, 1% fewer.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
113 sales of houses and apartments in Saffré, from July 2023 to June 2026, give the median of €2,086/m². Houses accounted for 99% of sales, apartments for the rest.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €2,094/m² | 112 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
All told, Saffré had 50 recorded offenses in 2025. Violence against people ran at 2.9 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 9.6 (2023–2025 average). Theft from vehicles topped the graded crimes in Saffré (2025).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery and vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (33.2% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage and gardens in and near Saffré. Best known first.
2 notable people were born in Saffré.
Commune in Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire
Saffré is a commune of 4,115 people in the Communauté de communes de Nozay. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saffré | 4,115 | — | — | C+ | — | C− |
| Nort-sur-Erdre | 9,570 | 5.1 | A− | B− | B− | B− |
| Nozay | 4,292 | 5.6 | B+ | B− | B | C− |
| Héric | 6,585 | 5.8 | B+ | B | B+ | B− |
| Casson | 2,605 | 7.1 | — | C+ | — | A |
| Joué-sur-Erdre | 2,797 | 7.1 | — | B+ | — | C |
| Les Touches | 2,638 | 7.8 | — | A− | — | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saffré has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 13 burglaries and 16 acts of criminal damage.
Homes cost less than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €2,086/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so Saffré grades C+ for cost of living.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.